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Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania

Nostalgia for Paradise Lost

Maria-Alina Asavei author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:24th Oct '21

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This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.  

ISBN: 9783030562571

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309 pages

1st ed. 2020